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The Bluebells class have enjoyed looking closely at weather as part of our ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ theme. We enjoyed performing a dance using umbrellas as a prop. We danced to Gene Kelly’s “Singing in the Rain” and loved doing this.
This week we have been successful learners and working hard on developing our numeracy skills.
We used the fitness balls to help understanding of directional movement, forward and backwards. We also all sat in a circle with the balls and used the drumsticks. We were counting and listening to directional movement, working on right and left.
We were taking part in coin work, before we went on our first class outing into town.
The Daisies Class were confident individuals during theme work, when they explored and tasted a range of different fruits. They then made a pictograph showing everyone’s favourites.
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The Bluebells class were very brave when trying a range of themed foods today. We tried a range of foods that were in our theme film “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. We tried watermelon, pretzels, chicken nuggets, hamburger, ice cream and even sardines!
All pupils tolerated tasting these foods or giving them a kiss.
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During our IDL theme “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, the Bluebells class have looked closely at the weather. Today, the class had a challenge to see if they could read and recognise any weather words. They used the SMARTboard and matched the word to the picture and then had to sort the jumbled up letters to create the words sun, snow, rain, wind and cloud. Miss Gemmell was very impressed with our reading skills!
Our theme is the Hungry Caterpillar. We were able to identify some fruits and vegetables and use these to complete some art work. We cut up the fruit and vegetables and dipped them in paint and made printing patterns on the paper. We investigated the print in made. Some worked better than others. We really liked the pear shape it made. We used carrots, potatoes, apples and pears.
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The Bluebells class gathered information from all of the pupils and staff in Willowbank school. We went round all the classes and asked everyone what their favourite weather was.
We counted our findings and put these on 3 charts. One showing the Infant corridor’s favourite, one showing the Middle Primary’s favourite and one showing the Secondary Department’s favourite.
The Beech class are in India this week as part of our mini-topic. We have had great fun exploring the culture of India and Hinduism through the arts and story telling.
We made our own rangoli patterns using dyed salt.
We learned about the Taj Mahal and other religious buildings that are in India.
We made diva lamps after learning all about the Festival of Light – Diwali
Skye helped to make home-made playdough and used lentils to make a Mandala style pattern on it.
We also read and role-played the story of Rama and Sita before exploring the festival of Diwali and learning about the different Hindu Gods.
This week we have been working very hard on improving our awareness of directional movement.
We explored this by using some blind folds, orienteering tasks and the Bee Bots. We were confident individuals and excited to find out where our clues lead us to. All of our clues involved directional words and counting our steps.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed making mini pizzas in the cookery room today. Pizzas fell from the sky in our theme film “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”.
We loved rolling the dough and making round pizza bases and carefully grated blocks of cheese. We are excited to take them home and share with our family!
